tautog

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Определение tautog в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina

When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray

Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll

large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States

Расстановка переносов

tau·tog

Синонимы

blackfish, black porgy, oyster-fish

Этимология

[ 'to-"tog, -"täg, to-' ] (noun.) 1643. Algonquian tautauog.